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I Write Games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
88•valyala•3h ago•61 comments

Brookhaven Lab's RHIC Concludes 25-Year Run with Final Collisions

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/brookhaven-labs-rhic-concludes-25-year-run-with-final-collis...
19•gnufx•1h ago•2 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
49•valyala•3h ago•10 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
164•1vuio0pswjnm7•9h ago•209 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
136•AlexeyBrin•8h ago•25 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
5•mooreds•25m ago•2 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
81•vinhnx•6h ago•10 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
843•klaussilveira•23h ago•252 comments

Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
58•thelok•5h ago•8 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1075•xnx•1d ago•615 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
10•zdw•3d ago•0 comments

We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
284•ColinWright•2h ago•332 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
88•onurkanbkrc•8h ago•5 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
508•theblazehen•3d ago•187 comments

Microsoft Account bugs locked me out of Notepad – are Thin Clients ruining PCs?

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-locked-me-out-of-notepad-is-the-thin-...
29•josephcsible•1h ago•21 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
222•jesperordrup•13h ago•80 comments

U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/02/05/us-jobs-disappear-at-fastest-january-pace-sin...
227•alephnerd•3h ago•176 comments

Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version

https://github.com/Momciloo/fun-with-clip-path
20•momciloo•3h ago•2 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
11•languid-photic•3d ago•3 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
34•marklit•5d ago•5 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
242•alainrk•7h ago•385 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
592•nar001•7h ago•263 comments

A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-fresh-look-at-ibm-3270-information-display-system
42•rbanffy•4d ago•8 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
119•videotopia•4d ago•36 comments

History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)

https://web.archive.org/web/20211030011207/https://thejhsshow.com/articles/history-and-timeline-o...
19•brudgers•5d ago•4 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
87•speckx•4d ago•97 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
205•limoce•4d ago•112 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
282•isitcontent•23h ago•38 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
292•dmpetrov•23h ago•156 comments

Show HN: Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local Dev

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
25•sandGorgon•2d ago•13 comments
Open in hackernews

Open Lovable

https://github.com/mendableai/open-lovable
177•iamflimflam1•6mo ago

Comments

pyman•6mo ago
Great initiative! I'd love to see this project build a community around it. Quick question, what do you need Firecrawl for?
bravesoul2•6mo ago
Can I run the whole chain FOSS? Firecrawl, this (maybe the LLM can be local too?)
kroaton•6mo ago
It needs a Docker-Compose.
aziis98•6mo ago
I didn't know about https://e2b.dev/ but I was looking for something exactly like that. Does anyone know about any self hostable alternatives?
sudhirb•6mo ago
It appears that e2b runs Firecracker microVMs (https://e2b.dev/blog/how-manus-uses-e2b-to-provide-agents-wi...)

It shouldn't be too hard to get a Firecracker orchestrator running locally - the articles here were very helpful when I was doing this myself: https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/01/23/firecracker--start-a-vm-in-l...

davidgomes•6mo ago
You should look at [Modal](https://modal.com/), not affiliated.
thundergolfer•6mo ago
Lovable runs on Modal Sandboxes.
mritchie712•6mo ago
you can host e2b: https://github.com/e2b-dev/infra/blob/main/self-host.md

we host it for https://www.definite.app/. You'd need pretty heavy usage to beat e2b's pricing.

umate•6mo ago
You can check out https://daytonaio-ai.framer.website/, it’s also could be self-hosted
Areibman•6mo ago
Played with https://www.freestyle.sh this weekend, really solid
aitchnyu•6mo ago
Can we run an agent in Github CI? I create a Github issue with my requirements, the CI runner runs Aider scripting mode (it connects to say, OpenAI api) which looks at the comments, maintains a branch, runs tests, takes browser screenshots and then gives its replies.

https://aider.chat/docs/scripting.html

ulrischa•6mo ago
Why would I do this? It would be better to have an app that turns a react app into a native web app. Speculation rules and page transitions make it possible already.
cal85•6mo ago
Wait is this a Lovable clone that is actually called open-lovable? That seems bold
dudeinjapan•6mo ago
Im waiting for open-open-ai
guerrilla•6mo ago
Everyone's waiting for open-open-ai.
bravesoul2•6mo ago
You're in luck! https://openai.com/open-models/
guerrilla•6mo ago
Hardly.
merelysounds•6mo ago
With “open” being such a common word, I wonder if that one might actually get a pass. And if not, then maybe open-squared-ai.
xtajv•6mo ago
It seems like trademark infringement.
croes•6mo ago
Can’t find a Loveable trademark for the app AI
yencabulator•6mo ago
Well, for starters, it's not spelled with that first e.

https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=99194755&caseSearchType=U...

cal85•6mo ago
also trademark registration is not remotely relevant here
yencabulator•6mo ago
What do you mean? It's literally the legal mechanism by which Lovable Labs Incorporated can prevent this guy from calling his thing open-lovable.
SonOfLilit•6mo ago
Registering your trademark makes enforcement easier, but there's a reason both TM and R exist - unregistered trademarks still hold power.
yencabulator•6mo ago
Sure. But for a company with a lot of money at stake, filing a trademark application isn't a huge bar and makes winning the legal case a lot easier.
cal85•6mo ago
nope, fire your lawyer. you get a common law trademark by trading under a name. no need to register it. TM registration is just to streamline big corps chasing after lots of small abusers in a wackamole way, that’s all. if the abuse in question is as egregious as “I used their product name, barely modified, to market my own thing, which is not just in the same general market but a literal clone of their product” then a judge is not going to say “Ah but I see they didn’t send in a form to register their trademark, so yeah carry on with blatantly stealing their work lol”
yencabulator•6mo ago
Lovable is a $1.8 B valuation company with $75 M ARR. Using some thousands of dollars to defend that stake sounds reasonable.
bravesoul2•6mo ago
I feel like "also trademark registration is not remotely relevant here" is a distracting statement then. Not necessarily wrong but easy for people to bikeshed over.
cal85•6mo ago
fair I retract “is not remotely relevant here” and offer “is not really relevant here”
conradev•6mo ago
As long as it’s not misleading: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/content-removal-polic...

I am reminded of OpenNext (https://opennext.js.org/) even though Vercel has a Next.js trademark.

cal85•6mo ago
compliance with a github policy isn't really the issue lol
rbren•6mo ago
Having started OpenDevin (now OpenHands [1]) I can say it's definitely worth renaming. It's very limiting attaching your branding to someone else's

[1] https://github.com/All-Hands-AI/OpenHands

echelon•6mo ago
It gets you some quick attention.

The people that need to notice will follow.

swyx•6mo ago
idk, do you think you would have gotten the start you did NOT being called opendevin?

(hi btw! see GP's talk on OpenHands here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_hhkJtlbSs&t=4s)

tough•5mo ago
maybe the best optimal strategy is leech into the brand while you're unknown, and switch to your own once you make it.

A bit sleazy but it works eh

Can't fight marketing and human psychology

swyx•5mo ago
imitation = sincere flattery etc
tough•5mo ago
yes that's the benevolent take,but in a market for attention, it feels like a bit of a vampire attack to a brand to spun off OpenBrand.

seems some what of a template now, OpenCut was recently on HN because some chinese company already owns their trademark, which is a pun/open version of CapCut, so things are getting a bit hairy at least, lol

rbren•5mo ago
Hah it definitely gave us an early boost!
ErikBjare•6mo ago
I still sometimes have to refer to OpenHands as "formerly known as OpenDevin". It may be limiting in the long run, but it definitely had some short-term punchiness.
Uehreka•6mo ago
It feels like a common thing in the AI space (moreso than other OSS spaces). People don’t get how trademarks work and that you can’t just name your project after something that’s already popular. I think some people think it’s a clever growth hack.
toddmorey•6mo ago
It's not really an "open lovable". I mean, there is of course a NextJS repo as part of it, but you need to bring your own API keys to an AI provider, as well as e2b.dev (sandbox, required) as well as firecrawl.dev (web scraping, oddly required).

It's the web scraping more than anything that makes me the least enthusiastic. I get that's the core of their business, but packaged this way, it's much less a loveable-style "build your vision" and more a "quickly copy another site". Just serving as a copy machine is the least interesting use of all this insane compute.

pointlessone•6mo ago
Now… any chances we could get a thing that takes in a React app and spits out a normal website with minimal or no JS?
kvdveer•6mo ago
How would you know it works if you can't add an imperial megaton of tracking scripts? /s
urbandw311er•6mo ago
Yes, it’s called `tsc` ;-)
jspiner•6mo ago
Is this a desktop app wrapper for lovable?
thedevilslawyer•6mo ago
There's also bolt.diy which uses browserbased webcontainer to build apps.
wahnfrieden•6mo ago
That’s not open though right. Webcontainer is closed
thedevilslawyer•6mo ago
Good point. codesandbox has an equivalent thing - i guess that could be a replacable thing.
vunderba•6mo ago
Why does this reference Lovable at all? The tagline for this project is "Clone and recreate any website as a modern React app in seconds" and requires a FIRECRAWL_API_KEY in order to perform the necessary scraping.

Lovable is more of a self-contained LLM chat which creates a new react site with optional supabase integration.

BenGosub•6mo ago
Firecrawl is a highly dubious company. Their job ads for bot "agents" seemed like a try to get free labour.
mosfets•6mo ago
Reminds of me of tools like https://huu.la, the main difference is newer generations focuses on utilizing LLM to map design to code, versus the older generations focus on using WYSWYG tooling to edit the page directly.
jacooper•6mo ago
Why not use bolt? It's open source and is competitive with lovable and replit.
aedSs•6mo ago
https://www.odoo.com/ar
couldai•5mo ago
what's the difference between lovable and couldai
AhmadSabbir•5mo ago
Open ai